GENDER-SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS OF EGO-CENTRISM IN THE PROCESS OF INTERPERSONALITY RELATIONS OF SENIOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
Abstract
This article focuses on one of the lesser-studied aspects in modern Russian psychology of the problem of personality development of pre-school age children - specific correlation between manifestations of ego-centrism and interpersonality relations with peers as regards a gender subject. The article briefly summarizes some of the existing approaches towards addressing the phenomenon of child’s ego-centrism as well as reveals the results of empirical study that illustrates some of the gender-specific manifestations of ego-centrism in older preschoolers and nature of correlation between the level of ego-centrism and sociometric status of 6-7 year-old girls and boys. A fact of more harmonious development processes of centration and de-centration among girls by the end of pre-school childhood and the prevalence of self-centrism on themselves among boys was found out. The data showing lesser propensity to gender segregation among pre-school girls were obtained. It has been established that sociometric status of pre-school children in the peer group is associated with their level of ego-centrism, namely: low and high levels of ego-centrism consistent with low sociometric status, whereas high sociometric status of a child is mostly observed at medium level of ego-centrism, which is characterized by a more harmonious balance of centration - de-centration.
About the Authors
L. E. Semenova
Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor (Psych.) Assistant Professor, Professor of Department of Classical and Practical Psychology,
Nizhnу Novgorod
M. E. Sachkova
Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor (Psych.) Assistant Professor, Professor of Department of Theoretical Foundations of Social Psychology,
Moscow
A. V. Chevachina
Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. (Psych.), Assistant Professor of Department of Classical and Practical Psychology,
Nizhnу Novgorod
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